BBC One’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ adaptation: Behind the scenes clip

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Inside No 9 star Steve Pemberton has diccussed his upcoming adaptation of EF Benson’s comic drama Mapp and Lucia in a new video from the set.

Mapp and Lucia is currently filming in Rye, Sussex.

Watch the interview…

Set in the summer of 1930, the three-part series stars Miranda Richardson (Parade’s End, Blackadder) and Anna Chancellor (The Hour, Spooks) as notorious small-town social rivals Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Mrs Emmeline ‘Lucia’ Lucas.

Other cast members include Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) as Raj Army veteran Major Benjy, alongside writer Steve Pemberton (Whitechapel) as Lucia’s devoted acolyte and dapper chief courtier, Georgie Pillson.

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